FiSMA has been an active partner in Finnish national nuclear safety research program SAFIR 2014 for several years. Main responsibility has been to develop process assessment approaches for safety-critical systems and software in nuclear power domain. Now this work is nearly finished and the result is Nuclear SPICE model. It is an integrated set of SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504 and 330xx standard), selected nuclear domain safety standards and selected nuclear regulatory guides. Nuclear SPICE model has been validated in several pilot assessments with system suppliers for Finnish nuclear industry. Nuclear SPICE assessments can be applied to supplier qualification, project qualification, and product development qualification with strict safety-criticality.
FiSMA Association, Spinet Oy and Teollisuuden Voima Oy (a Finnish nuclear power company) will organize a 4-day Nuclear SPICE training during week 38 in Helsinki, Finland. Training days are 16-19.9.2014. Training will lead to Provisional Nuclear SPICE Assessor certificate, to act as a team member in internal or independent assessments.
For more information, please contact Risto Nevalainen, Senior Advisor in FiSMA, risto.nevalainen@fisma.fi.
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keskiviikko 23. heinäkuuta 2014
maanantai 2. kesäkuuta 2014
Greetings from the XP-conference in Rome
The fifteenth international conference on agile software development (XP 2014) was arranged between 26th and 30th of May in the sunny city of Rome, Italy. The local venue was more than excellent for the purposes for the conference, and overall the general mood during the week was relaxed yet functional. The approach to the discussions over the new trends of agile development was fit for the subject; flash speeches intersecting the open space sessions and presentations. In addition to this, conference also had managed to squeeze several workshops and tutorials into the program, so that the visitors got more than just a theoretical sampling of the new ideas.
The agile development methods are refined and matured, this cannot be disputed. In fact, looking into the conference in retrospective says much about the content, we are beyond the basic things and going into the advanced and specialized domains. Several presentations discussed and focused on different techniques, models and games which are meant to ease the application of agile principles, and in general, the focus seem to have shifted towards managing agile processes and scaling agility towards larger projects, away from the traditional software development. This was also mentioned in the most poignant keynote of the conference, given by Robert C. Martin, who saw that the ’agile world is falling into the pit of certification’. According to him, the best hope to avoid this unwanted development is to go back to the basic values and principles of Extreme Programming, and start again from there.
As per usual, there was a strong Finnish presence in the conference, and this may not be complete coincidence, since the new venue for XP conference will be at Aalto University in Helsinki. Aalto will be hosting the conference on 25th to 29th of May in 2015; more information, call for papers and other interesting facts are available at http://www.xp2015.org/.
Person reporting from the conference was Tuomas Mäkilä, who is currently working on the AgiES research project, focusing on the application of agile methods in the development of embedded systems.
The agile development methods are refined and matured, this cannot be disputed. In fact, looking into the conference in retrospective says much about the content, we are beyond the basic things and going into the advanced and specialized domains. Several presentations discussed and focused on different techniques, models and games which are meant to ease the application of agile principles, and in general, the focus seem to have shifted towards managing agile processes and scaling agility towards larger projects, away from the traditional software development. This was also mentioned in the most poignant keynote of the conference, given by Robert C. Martin, who saw that the ’agile world is falling into the pit of certification’. According to him, the best hope to avoid this unwanted development is to go back to the basic values and principles of Extreme Programming, and start again from there.
As per usual, there was a strong Finnish presence in the conference, and this may not be complete coincidence, since the new venue for XP conference will be at Aalto University in Helsinki. Aalto will be hosting the conference on 25th to 29th of May in 2015; more information, call for papers and other interesting facts are available at http://www.xp2015.org/.
Person reporting from the conference was Tuomas Mäkilä, who is currently working on the AgiES research project, focusing on the application of agile methods in the development of embedded systems.
keskiviikko 14. toukokuuta 2014
ISO/IEC 29119 Courses
During this Spring, the members of FiSMA have been returning back to school, since FiSMA has arranged a series of their well-received training courses on the international standards and their application. This time the selected standard was ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard, which was dissected and disseminated during the two day courses, first held in February and due to large demand, repeated during the first week of June.
Overall, the course discussed the first four parts of the standards in detail, and additionally discussed the overall state of Finnish software testing and quality assurance in the industry, while also introducing the relevant related standards and assessment models. As usual, feedback on the course was that both implementations were liked and well-received.
For more information, and access to the course material can be requested from the FiSMA offices, see front page for details.
Overall, the course discussed the first four parts of the standards in detail, and additionally discussed the overall state of Finnish software testing and quality assurance in the industry, while also introducing the relevant related standards and assessment models. As usual, feedback on the course was that both implementations were liked and well-received.
For more information, and access to the course material can be requested from the FiSMA offices, see front page for details.
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